The Sword Through the Centuries

Engrossing, carefully researched and illustrated survey spanning 5 centuries covers the development of the sword from its earliest forms, beginning with the Age of Chivalry. Lively contemporary accounts provide details on such weapons as the two-hand sword, the rapier and its auxiliaries, dagger and small sword, broadsword, duelling sword, and sabre. 48 black-and-white illustrations.

Unabridged republication of The Sword and the Centuries, or Old Sword Days and Old Sword Ways, reprinted by Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc., Rutland, Vermont, 1973, from the 1901 first edition, published by Grant Richards, London.